Titles & Abstracts

(alphabetical order)

Remembering Prof. Shaul Shaked

Family, friends and colleagues

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Dr. Gad Barnea (University of Haifa)

Features of Achaemenid-era Zoroastrianism: some echoes from Yahwistic sources at Elephantine

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Dr. Ohad Cohen (University of Haifa)

Shining a light on להוא in Judean Aramaic : Evidences from Achaemenid Imperial Aramaic

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Prof. Diana Edelman (University of Oslo)

Yhwh Shomron and Yhwh Elohim in the Achaemenid Province of Samaria

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Prof. Israel Finkelstein (University of Haifa)

Archaeology's Black Hole: Jerusalem and Yehud/Judea in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods

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Dr. Margaretha Folmer (Leiden University)

The linguistic milieu of Elephantine Aramaic

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Prof. Benedikt Hensel (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)

Was there an ‘Idumean Yahwism’? Material and Biblical Evidence on Religion and Yahweh-Worship in Idumea

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Prof. Tawny Holm (Pennsylvania State University)

Samarians in the Egyptian Diaspora

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Prof. Itamar Kislev (University of Haifa)

The cultic fire in the priestly source

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Prof. Ingo Kottsieper (University of Münster)

From יהה צבאת to יהו מרא שמיא: Aspects of religious development on Elephantine

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Prof. Reinhard Kratz (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen)

Where to put Biblical, Torah-centered Yahwism in Achaemenid Times?

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Prof. Oded Lipschits (University of Tel-Aviv)

"Those who live in these ruins in the land of Israel" (Ez. 33:24): Some Thoughts on Living in the Shadow of the Ruins in Persian Period Judah

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Dr. James D. Moore (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Administering Religion and Cult at Elephantine

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Prof. Antonio Panaino (Università di Bologna)

Cyrus as Mašiaḥ or Χριστός

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Dr. Laurie Pearce (University of California, Berkeley)

Through a Babylonian looking glass: what is the problem with foreign wives?

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Prof. Bezalel Porten (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

יהו and its cognates in personal names: the problem of Yama

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Prof. Konrad Schmid (University of Zurich)

The End of History and the Ends of History: Assessing the Political-Theological Status of the Achaemenid Empire in Persian Period Judaism

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Prof. Stefan Schorch (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

The Samaritan Pentateuch as Textual Witness of the Pentateuch in the Persian Period

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Prof. Michael Shenkar (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

The Achaemenid Dynasty, Zoroastrianism and the Origin of the Fire-Temples

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Dr. Jason Silverman (University of Helsinki)

Yahwism in the Religious Field of the Achaemenid Empire: Using Bourdieu as a theorist of religious change in the Persian Empire

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Prof. Karel van der Toorn (University of Amsterdam)

Persian Imperialism and the Religious Imagination in Early Judaism

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